Investigators said Nguyen Tan Thanh posted job recruitment ads offering high salaries for an event organizing company in the province’s Di An Town on his pages in early October.

When job seekers expressed interest, he asked for their personal information, including photos and phone numbers, in order to set up interviews.

He later reached out to beautiful young women and arranged to meet them in isolated places where he robbed them, police say.

The latest crime occurred on October 30 when Thanh made an appointment with a 22-year-old woman, identified only as M, on the street before taking her to Tan Binh Residential Area to steal her motorbike and cell phone.

M later notified police who tracked down Thanh while he was setting up an appointment with his next victim.